Victorian demons : medicine, masculinity and the Gothic at the fin-de-siècle /
Victorian demons provides the first extensive exploration of largely middle-class masculinities in crisis at the fin de siècle. It analyses how ostensibly controlling models of masculinity became demonised in a variety of literary and medical contexts, revealing the period to be much more ideologic...
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| פורמט: | Licensed eBooks |
| שפה: | אנגלית |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2017.
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| גישה מקוונת: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.21996654 |
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